Stardust Crusaders #01 - a Man Possessed by an Evil Spirit

Hello hello hello, good people! Well met! I promised you the crusade of a lifetime, and I hope you’re ready for it! We finally made it, ladies and gentlemen… We’re finally here! It took us more than two years, but I hope these comparisons will be worth the wait. Let’s get right into the first one, what do you say? As you can imagine, this being episode #01 and all, it won’t have many differences… But let’s get started nonetheless!

Today’s first difference is this bit of credits, in which 光田史亮 (Kо̄ta Fumiaki) was added in the middle, credited as “Stand Designer” and “Action Animation Director”. Check it out:

Moving on, this scene has a brighter vignette along the edges, and Holly’s face, hair and dress have also been retouched throughout:

The camera has also been moved a tad in the middle of the sequence:

This whole sequence is brighter and much sharper:

While this is much brighter:

Another two brighter and sharper sequences of this good mom running, for your eyes only:

And now for a very insignificant change! The title of the episode fades out more… smoothly in the BDs. Have a very brief video and a comparison frame (because I doubt many of you will be able to actually see the difference in the video):

Have another couple of brighter and sharper animations here, this time of Avdol whipping out his charred bird:

Magician’s Red spouts slightly brighter flames in this scene:

Moving on, these two clips of Joseph showing off his incredibly overpowered Stand are also brighter and sharper:

The first frames after the crash are also brighter:

It’s time for some credit differences already! But this time there’s a whole bunch of them. Here, the two names that were previously under “david production” (石本峻一, Ishimoto Shun’ichi and 西村彩, Nishimura Aya) have been incorporated into the main section:

The same applies here to 福田周平 (Fukuda Shūhei):

The credits here, instead, have been spaced a little bit more:

Here, the whole “3D Modeling” section (containing three names: david production, ソエジマヤスフミ - Soejima Yasufumi and 檜垣賢一 - Higaki Ken’ichi) has been removed, since they were all just duplicates of the names contained in the 3DCGI section, just below:

Here, they added マベリカ (Maverica) at the bottom, under “Website Production”:

And let’s close up with this other bit of credits, in which 服部健太郎 (Hattori Kentarо̄) has been added in the middle, under the section “Digital Production”:

And that’s it! As far as crusades go, this was probably rather tame, but even a crusade of a thousand miles starts with one step! Well, in any case, see you next time for Episode #02, “Who Will Be the Judge!?”!